Meet the Research Team

Jill A. Fisher

PhD

Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for Bioethics and Department of Social Medicine

Jill Fisher has been conducting research on pharmaceutical clinical trials for nearly two decades. She is the author of Medical Research for Hire: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials (2009, Rutgers University Press) and Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals (2020, New York University Press).

Rebecca L. Walker

PhD

Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for Bioethics, Department of Social Medicine, and Department of Philosophy

Rebecca Walker’s work to date has focused on practical virtue ethics, concepts of autonomy in bioethics, the ethics of how we treat non-human animals, the allocation of health care resources, and ethics methods.

 

Anne Drapkin Lyerly

MD, MA

Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for Bioethics, Department of Social Medicine, and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Anne Lyerly’s research addresses socially and morally complex issues in women’s health and reproductive medicine, with a focus on how women and men assign meaning to reproductive events. A central goal of her work is to inform and reframe debates based on the views of the women and men most profoundly affected by them, and to appropriately weight these individuals’ interests in shaping reproductive health care.

Douglas MacKay

PhD

Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for Bioethics and Department of Public Policy

Doug MacKay’s research and teaching interests concern questions at the intersection of justice and public policy. He is currently working on projects concerning the justice of economic inequality – both domestic and global; the ethics of immigration policy; priority setting in health care; the ethics of international clinical research; and justice in the division of responsibilities within federal systems of government.

Torin Monahan

PhD

Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Communication

Torin Monahan’s research focuses on institutional transformations with new technologies, with a particular emphasis on surveillance and security programs. Areas of expertise include science and technology studies, surveillance studies, visual culture, ethnography, and contemporary social and cultural theory.

 

Margaret Waltz

PhD

Margaret Waltz is a Research Associate in the Department of Social Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine. She received her PhD in Sociology from Case Western Reserve University where she researched patients’ experiences of waiting in medical waiting rooms and how medical institutions structure patients’ time. She also works on the ethical and social implications of preventive genomic screening for adults, including return of results in the GeneScreen project.

Lisa McManus

PhD

Lisa McManus has a PhD in sociology from North Carolina State University and teaches at Wake Technical Community College. Her ongoing research examines how state-level wage policies effect worker wellbeing, and race and gender wage gaps..